Peloni: Coincidently, it is being reported today that Netanyahu will likely not be attending Trump’s inauguration, with an aide stating that “Netanyahu had not received an official invitation, though it was unclear if he had been informally asked to attend.” Notably, Netanyahu had previously intended to attend the inauguration, even following his recent prostate surgery.
The claims made by Sachs in the video reposted by Trump are illogical, unfactual, and unsupportable. They are also inflammatory, divisive, and antisemitic. Beyond all of this, though, they are also completely contrary to Trump’s own political perspective and that of his MAGA base, which has long held that US Forever Wars are not due to influence from Israel, nor from Bibi, but are related to the political and economic interests of US elites which sway US policy towards such misadventures as took place in Iraq. In fact, Trump has never once made any comment supportive of the rant put forward by Sachs in this video. Marina Medvin suggests that Trump may have posted it without watching it, perhaps at the suggestion of a trusted third party. This of course is a very reasonable proposal, but as of this posting, the Sachs video has still not been removed from Trump’s TS account, to the delight and claimed affirmation of too many antisemites on the web to count.
Sachs ranted about Netanyahu’s obsession to manipulate US foreign policy to “get rid of Hamas and Hezbollah” by removing regimes that support them via military force.
By JAMES GENN | JPOST | JANUARY 10, 2025
US President-elect Donald Trump shared a video of Jewish-American economist Jeffrey Sachs on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Wednesday wherein Sachs called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a dark son of a b****” and of dragging the US into wars in the Middle East.
The clip shared by Trump, was from a guest speaker event in October 2024 at the Cambridge Union, a student-run society at Cambridge University in the UK.
During the question and answer session of the event, Sachs was asked by an audience member to discuss the conflict between democracies and dictatorships, particularly with reference to the People’s Republic of China and Washington-Beijing economic and geopolitical relations.
In his answer, Sachs first stated that the US is not really a democracy, given that so few people are informed about or agree with Biden’s foreign policy. He also alleged that the media deliberately misinformed the American people about the true situation.
Before answering the topic regarding China, he spoke about how a PR guru led this media misinformation and that the alleged ‘Deep State’, “wanted the war all the time. They had to figure out how to sell the war to the American people, how to scare the s**t out of the American people.” He also referenced how the 2003 Iraq invasion was a “phony war” that “came from Netanyahu, actually.”
Sachs then continued to allege that Netanyahu has manipulated Washington’s foreign policy “from 1995 onward” in order to “get rid of Hamas and Hezbollah by toppling the governments that support them. That’s Iraq, Syria, and Iran.”
Sachs eventually went on to address Washington’s relations with Beijing.
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